Charities - Who do we benefit?

Incorporated in 1977, Gulf Winds Track Club is a volunteer-led, non-profit organization with a mission to promote fitness, well-being, and camaraderie in the Tallahassee area. Members are runners, walkers, and triathletes of all ages and abilities. The club’s activities include, among other things:

• Organizing multiple races year-round, varying in distance from the diaper dash to a 50-mile ultramarathon, held on venues including road, track, and trail
• Offering free weekly group runs
• Hosting beginning runner classes for adults
• Providing small college scholarships for high school runners
• Providing grants to elementary, middle, and high school running teams and clubs
• Offering race-planning expertise and equipment to other charities that put on their own local races
• Supporting the maintenance of local running trails
• Raising money for other local charitable causes that support children with cancer, homeless individuals, domestic violence survivors, and others.